PHM-Exch> Right to food and nutrition Watch 2012: Upcoming launch activities worldwide

Thu Oct 4 08:33:52 PDT 2012

 Lea Winter <winter at fian.org> wrote:

>  ** **
> Find  below an overview of all the activities that took and will take
> place for the launch of the Watch 2012 worldwide.
>

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> ** **
>
> *Watch 2012 Launch*
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> *25 September 2012: Launch in Geneva, Switzerland*
> *A press conference/panel discussion with** **Flavio Valente (FIAN),
> Peter Prove (EAA), Huguette Akplogan-Dossa
> (ANoRF), Abdessalam Ould Ahmed (FAO) and Lalji Desai (WAMIP). People
> attending: 30***
>
> ** **
>
> Video of the launch in Geneva (French and English):
> http://www.livestream.com/genevapressclub/video?clipId=pla_3af7204a-7327-4c74-addc-233ad32d910e
> ****
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> * *
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> *Press clippings:***
>
> *The Guardian* (English):
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/sep/26/human-rights-combat-hunger-report?newsfeed=true
>
> *IPS *(English):
> http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/09/starving-for-an-equitable-food-system/
>
> *Le Courrier *(French):
> http://www.lecourrier.ch/102048/qui_a_le_pouvoir_mange_a_sa_faim(attached)
>
> Attached: ****
>
> - a 15 minutes interview of Huguette Akplogan-Dossa on *Radio Cité* (in
> French)****
>
> - a 10 minutes interview with Huguette Akplogan-Dossa (RAPDA) and Mr.
> Abdessalam Ould Ahmed (FAO) recorded by *Radio Cité* at the launch event
> in Geneva (in French)****
>
> * *
>
> *29 September: Launch in Oaxaca, Mexico *
>
> Presentation during an international meeting of Indigenous Peoples to
> protect maize with Saul Vicente (IITC). ****
>
> * *
>
> *October 10: ***
>
> 1) Launch in *Berlin*, Germany during a press conference on land grabbing
> organized by Brot für die Welt and FIAN Germany with the participation of
> the focal point of ANoRF Cameroon, Fon Nsoh (Cominsud).****
>
> 2) Launch the report in *New York City* during the ceremony of the US
> Food Sovereignty Prize. Olivier De Shutter will be the key note speaker.**
>
> 2) Launch in *Vienna, Austria* during an expert-panel discussion
> organized by Brot für die Welt, FIAN Austria, LVC and APRODEV. ****
>
> * *
>
> *October 11:* Presentation in *Geneva, Switzerland* by FIAN CH during a
> panel discussion on the role of Geneva as a central platform for trade and
> human rights: coherence or contradiction?**
>
> * *
>
> *October 12:*  ****
>
> 1) EAA will present the Watch in Geneva.****
>
> 2) FIAN Netherland and ILEIA, *the* Centre for Information on *Low
> External Input* and Sustainable Agriculture will launch the Watch.****
>
> * *
>
> *October 14: Kampala, Uganda*
>
> The Watch 2012 will be presented during a community dialogue at Bugema
> University on the international theme: “Agricultural cooperatives – key to
> feeding the world” .Participants will include students, community leaders,
> civil society activists and policy makers. A number of other activities
> will run together with the dialogue including poetry and filming of videos
> on improving the supply chain of agriculture produce.**
>
> * *
>
> *October 16:*
>
> 1) *Rome, Italy: *During the official celebration, FIAN and IITC will
> distribute copies to representatives in the hallway (mystica). The Watch
> will also be handed out in a side event on the GSF.****
>
> 2) *Mexico City, Mexico: *Organized by WABA (Marcos Arana)**
>
> 3) *Quezon City, Philippines: FIAN Philippines *will launch the Watch at
> the same time than the Philippine Food Campaign. Invited will be the former
> Chairman of the UN Committee on Food Security, Noel de Luna, Chairman of
> the Senate Committee on Food, Kiko Pangilinan and hopefully the Secretary
> of the Interior and Local Government, Mar Roxas, to give the keynote
> address. There will also be a painting competition with the theme “Ang
> Pangarap kong Bayan” (My dream for my country) to be judged in the
> afternoon. More than 350 participants all over the country representing
> more than 50 people’s organizations and NGOs will attend the conference. *
> ***
>
> 4) The Watch will be presented during a World Food Day event in *Boston,
> USA* by the US Food Sovereignty Alliance.****
>
> * *
>
> *October 17:  Simultaneous launches in Asunción (Paraguay), Córdoba
> (Argentina), La Paz (Bolivia) and Quito (Ecuador)  *
>
> Events organized by the different chapters of PIDHDD. In Quito in the
> academy of social sciences with FIAN Ecuador, the agriculture minister, and
> the confederation of indigenous peoples and representatives of rural women.
> In Cordoba organized by Semilla. In La Paz, organized by AIPE. In Paraguay,
> organized by BASE and FIAN Paraguay group.****
>
> ** **
>
> *October 22-24:  Launch in Bogota*: ****
>
> Presentation during an international seminar on the Right to Food* *organized
> by FIAN Colombia.* *
>
> *Congreso por el derecho a la alimentación, la soberanía alimentaria y la
> seguridad alimentaria y nutricional*”, el cual se llevará a cabo en la
> Universidad Nacional de Colombia de Bogotá, en el Edificio de Postgrados de
> Ciencias Humanas Auditorio Virginia Gutiérrez, el próximo 22 a 24 de
> octubre del año en curso. Este evento está siendo organizado por FIAN
> Colombia, el Observatorio de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional de la
> Universidad Nacional de Colombia, la Asociación de Trabajo
> Interdisciplinario y OBUSINGA.**
>
> * *
>
> *October 29: Launch in Brasilia, Brazil *
>
> Presentation of the Watch in the presidential palace by FIAN.****
>
> * *
>
> *November 7:** Barcelona, Spain*, the Observatori DESC will present the
> Watch during a class at University on ESCR with Veterinary without borders.
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> *November 14: Launch in Nantes, France* ****
>
> Presentation in the context of a series of conference at the University in
> partnership with the French committee for International solidarity (CFSI),
> and during a press conference before a debate on agrofuels. ****
>
> * *
>
> *The African Network on the Right to Food (ANoRF)* will organize several
> events including one week of activities in Cotonou, Benin in partnership
> with a network of farmers (Synergie paysanne) and the vent in Kamapala. The
> details of the activities of the different national coalitions need be
> confirmed (Dakar, Lomé, Kinshasa, Bangui, *Ouagadougou*...).****
>
> ** **
>
> *Karachi, Pakistan*: WABA member, Ms. Akram will organize an event in
> partnership with FIAN group in Islamabad that might also organized an event
> there.****
>
> ** **
>
> *Feedback:* ICCO asked official reactions to the Watch of Davind Nabarro,
> Marc van Ameringen (director of Gain) and Fokko Wientjs (CEO, dutch company
> DSM). ****
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